You can put MPEG video URLs into playlists and play them like movies (Opening shark.m4u with Firefox and Video Lan Client).

Real Audio Metafiles and MPEG audio Playlists were not enough.

Series of MPEG video URLs in ASCII ("This media type consists of a series of URLs").

Whatever your favourite MPEG video playlist-player can display.

MIME type video/vnd.mpegurl and extension m4u as in /etc/apache2/mime.types.

Apple is different.

Media type, Format, Recommended MIME type, Typical file extension

Playlist, HLS playlist, application/vnd.apple.mpegurl, m3u8

Apples "extended MPEG Audio Playlist" with many special tags, but simple series of MPEG video URLs -- without those special tags -- may work as well.

Playlist, M3U playlist, audio/mpegurl, m3u

Winamps "extended MPEG Audio Playlist" with some special tags, but simple series of MPEG video URLs -- without those special tags -- may work as well.

Copy and paste:

-- begin of shark.php --
<?php header('Content-Type: video/vnd.mpegurl');
$urls = array("http://heikorecktenwald.de/malta/esfirschubschiffsmall.mp4","http://heikorecktenwald.de/malta/esfirshubsma.mp4","http://heikorecktenwald.de/malta/lua.mp4","http://heikorecktenwald.de/malta/lub.mp4","http://heikorecktenwald.de/malta/luc.mp4","http://heikorecktenwald.de/malta/lud.mp4","http://heikorecktenwald.de/malta/lue.mp4", "http://heikorecktenwald.de/malta/dba.mp4","http://heikorecktenwald.de/malta/dbb.mp4","http://heikorecktenwald.de/malta/dbc.mp4","http://heikorecktenwald.de/malta/dbd.mp4","http://heikorecktenwald.de/malta/dbe.mp4");
shuffle($urls);
foreach ($urls as $url) {echo "$url"."\r\n";}?>
-- end of shark.php ---

Does the order matter?

"A fleet of movies" (Alexander Kluge)